I am work­ing on a project that requires high-lev­el users to be able to upload more than the default Word­Press file-upload lim­it. I’ve done this in the past but I have set it to a mul­ti-domain set­ting. Mean­ing that it encom­pass­es all of my domains being host­ed in a par­tic­u­lar Dreamhost user account.

I want­ed to only increase the file size (again) to some­thing much larg­er than I’ve had before but only for a par­tic­u­lar sub­do­main; as I was using it for stag­ing. Here’s the process that I took to make that hap­pen.1